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Researching a cure for Australia’s second biggest cancer killer is to receive a major boost with $8.9 million to establish a professorial chair in bowel cancer research at the University of Sydney. Read more

Helping Aboriginal students in financial need and who are from rural, regional or remote areas is the motivation behind Mr Jamieson’s $143,000 gift to establish the Douglas Jamieson Aboriginal Scholarship. Read more

A generous gift to the University's Faculty of Dentistry and Charles Perkins Centre will allow the University to push the boundaries of our understanding of dental and systemic health and find new ways to prevent chronic disease. Read more

Dick Hunstead, a University of Sydney academic donated $1.4 million to the Sydney Institute for Astronomy. Hunstead has been an astronomer at the University ever since his PhD days 50 years ago. Read more